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Dole Revives Controversy
Over GOP Abortion Plank

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John Harwood Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 11, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole reopened a controversy he had sought to quiet last week, by saying that a statement tolerating dissenting views would be included directly in the GOP platform's antiabortion plank.

Sen. Dole's remarks, in an interview Monday on CNN's Inside Politics, drew immediate criticism from representatives of antiabortion groups who believed they had triumphed in a fierce intraparty debate when the prospective GOP nominee spoke out on the issue just last week. And they made...